Search for: legalism
2681 Etymology dictionary, p. natural (adj.).3
… not legal status).
2682 Etymology dictionary, p. neck (n.).4
… in legal executions. Meaning "narrow part at the top of a bottle" is from late 14c.; meaning "part of a garment which covers the neck" is from 1520s. Meaning "long, slender …
2683 Etymology dictionary, p. New Year's Eve.2
… though legal documents then shifted to March 25, popular calendars and almanacs continued to begin on January 1. The calendar reform of 1751 restored the …
2684 Etymology dictionary, p. nincompoop (n.).3
… Latin legal phrase non compos mentis "insane, mentally incompetent" (c. 1600), the connection is denied by the OED's etymologists because the earliest forms …
2685 Etymology dictionary, p. nisi (conj.).2
Latin, "unless," occurring in legal and administrative phrases used in English, from ni "not " + si "if."
2686 Etymology dictionary, p. nonage (n.).2
late 14c., "childhood, minority, state of not being of age, period of legal infancy," from Anglo-French nounage (early 14c.), Old French nonaage, from non- (see non- ) + age (see age (n.)). Figurative use from 1580s.
2687 Etymology dictionary, p. non-consensual (adj.).2
… in legal discussions and definitions of rape and other sex crimes and popularized in this sense from c. 1995. An earlier adjective was non-consenting (1670s …
2688 Etymology dictionary, p. notarize (v.).2
"have (a document) legalized by a notary," 1930 (implied in notarized ), from notary + -ize. Related: Notarizing .
2689 Etymology dictionary, p. notary (n.).3
Meaning "person authorized to draw up and authenticate contracts and other legal instruments" is from mid-14c.; especially in notary public (late 15c.), which has the French order of noun-adjective. Related: Notarial .
2690 Etymology dictionary, p. nude (adj.).2
… , a legal term, "unsupported, not formally attested," from Latin nudus "naked, bare, unclothed, stripped," from PIE root *nogw- "naked" (see naked ). General sense of "mere …
2691 Etymology dictionary, p. null (adj.).2
"void of legal force, invalid," 1560s, from French nul, from Latin nullus "not any, none," from ne- "not, no" (from PIE root *ne- "not") + illus "any," diminutive of unus "one" (from PIE root *oi-no- "one, unique").
2692 Etymology dictionary, p. nullify (v.).2
"render legally null and void, render invalid," 1590s, from Late Latin nullificare "to esteem lightly, despise," literally "to make nothing," from Latin nullus "not …
2693 Etymology dictionary, p. nullity (n.).2
… being legally null and void," from French nullité (14c.) or directly from Medieval Latin nullitalis, from Latin nullus "not any" (see null ). From 1580s as "a state of …
2694 Etymology dictionary, p. obiter dictum.2
… the legal sense "a judge's expression of opinion which is not the formal resolution of a case or determination of the court."
2695 Etymology dictionary, p. obligation (n.).3
… or legal claims a duty" is from c. 1600. That of "state or fact of being bound or constrained by gratitude to requite benefits, moral indebtedness," also is from …
2696 Etymology dictionary, p. oblige (v.).2
… or legal obligation, devote," from Old French obligier "engage one's faith, commit (oneself), pledge" (13c.), from Latin obligare "to bind, bind up, bandage," figuratively …
2697 Etymology dictionary, p. obscene (adj.).3
… 1590s. Legally, "any impure or indecent publication tending to corrupt the mind and to subvert respect for decency and morality." In modern U.S. law, the definition …
2698 Etymology dictionary, p. onus (n.).2
… "). Hence legal Latin onus probandi (1722) "the task of proving what has been alleged," literally "burden of proving."
2699 Etymology dictionary, p. ostracism (n.).2
… a legal political method among the ancient Athenians by which men deemed dangerous to the liberties of the people or embarrassing to the state were banished …
2700 Etymology dictionary, p. outlawry (n.).2
late 14c., "action of putting a person outside the protection of the law by legal means," from Anglo-French utlagerie, a hybrid from Old English utlaga (see outlaw (n.)) + -ary. Meaning "defiance of the law" is by 1869.